If you’re in the cloud or datacenter space, chances are you’ve been hearing about the term “containers” and “Docker” non-stop for the past few years. Ever stop and wonder what this is all about? The purpose of this tutorial is to get your feet wet with Docker and to standardize your understanding of how Docker […]

In this short, yet informative tutorial, we will be showing you how you can quickly bind a range of IPv4 addresses to your CentOS server. This also works with any RedHat based system, including Fedora! Whether you are needing to route a /26 IPv4 range, or a /24 IPv4 range – this method can save you lots […]

MariaDB is forked from MySQL, MariaDB has been known to be a drop-in replacement that brings enhancements and performance optimizations over MySQL. This tutorial will show you how to install, optimize and tune on your server-side.

If you’re like me, you find yourself running processes every now and then that don’t have init scripts and simply remain active in your session. One common example of that would be a Minecraft server manually launched via SSH/console. Something you’ve probably run into is that the process is killed once your shell session ends. […]

Perhaps you’re using a Low End Box to host a game or some type of application that requires the Java Runtime Environment. Perhaps you’d like to use your VPS as a dev environment for your Java app? While the installation of Java on a Linux VPS is quite painless, it can be difficult to demystify […]

Black Friday and the shopping season are quickly descending upon us. Why not put your Low End Box to work for you? Installing the Magento Shopping Cart app using SSH is a painless install. Needless to say, installing Magento with SSH is one of the fastest ways to begin selling items online. About the Install […]

Looking for a proxy server app that can be rapidly deployed on Linux? Installing Squid on your low end box can provide your organization with a robust proxy server that can facilitate a secure Internet connection for your end users. Squid can also provide logging, access control and antivirus capabilities though such features are outside […]

Welcome back to yet another tutorial in the CentOS 7 series! This time I will (again) continue where I left of last time, with the installation of PHP (specifically, PHP-FPM). The last tutorials are a prerequisite for this one, so if you haven’t followed those yet, now is the time to do so. We’re going […]

Welcome back! This week’s tutorial will focus on installing PHP on CentOS 7 and will continue were I left off last time: with the installation of NGINX. The last tutorial is a prerequisite for this one, so if you haven’t followed that one yet, now is the time to do so. We’re not going to […]

Welcome back for another tutorial! This time I’m going to show you how to get started with NGINX on CentOS 7. CentOS 7 has been out for quite a while now, but it’s not become a standard quite yet. Since they made some big changes to the way CentOS works, migrations aren’t exactly what […]

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